donjamaica

January 31, 2012 11:48 pm That logo stinks. Unless you squint. Then it looks like a pac-man skull in a hoodie. To each their own, I guess.

May 31, 2011 7:05 pm All the retconning and digimarketing and doodaddery and I still don't get why Superman needs a belt.  I just don't understand. Do Beltpoint already.

February 6, 2011 3:36 pm

I dunno.  Supreme Power and The Twelve moved me from browser to buyer.  Indelible reinterpretations of comparitively lesser known characters whose inherent potential was handled magificiently.  Supreme Power/Squadron was finished in a way that reminds me of the time I went in for a tonsilectomy and came out with a gender reassignment.  Yeah, the surgery was "finished."  And yeah, I could still sing.  But sorry Captain fans.  Hope you elike my Tennille.

Anyhooters, guess we're just lucky JMS's problems never befell the Watchmen or Sandman.  Probably a dumb comparison, maybe the hormone therapy talkin', but he kinda goes there:

"It’s really important to me to keep growing as a writer, to look for new challenges and be harshly critical of my own work in order to learn and tell better stories. Of my own work in monthly comics, on a scale of 1-10, with Alan Moore being 10, I’ve hit 7 or 8 fairy often, have had the accidental 8-9 on rare occasions, with most being in the range of 6-7, at least in my view. That may seem a bit hard, but again, I need to be harder on my work than anybody else.

I would like to be able to work consistently at the 8 range, maybe hitting 9 more often I have in the past. The only way to do that is to step away from the work and examine it in the harsh light of day. Where did I go right? Where did I screw up? Where can I improve? How can I tell better stories?"

My two peppers on those questions as they relate to projects like SP/SQ and 12:  1)  When you started writing the awesome stories.  2)  When you didn't, for whatever reason, give the awesome stories endings.  3)  Giving the awesome stories endings.  4)  Use endings.

November 14, 2009 4:03 pm Awesomes, and very interesting.  Thanks for answering my question, and doing the research.  By the way, found that Deadpool appearance in a stack (I guess my brother bought it), it's going for a cool fifty right now.  

October 6, 2009 9:05 pm People got better justice (JUSTICE!) from the Bush administration.  James Robinson wrote one of my favorite minis of all time - Golden Age.  Justice (JUSTICE!) - words fail me.  (JUSTICE!)  The best backmatter in all comics ...maybe.  But that's like saying the fortune cookie rocked after hurling the entree.  I'll go you one better Backmatter Lad (JUSTICE!).  The events in this comic that occur off-page - many a fight, a threesome that couldn't have been more out of character than if Bea Arthur had participated, and any imaginary spread where someone doesn't fucking yell "JUSTICE" - those events are awesome.  They are worth the price and the incomprehensible 315 pulls.  That JUSTICE, the one with a good story that doesn't take three issues to build to a red herring, that celebrates a character's legacy through imaginative yet faithful interpretation, that takes advantage of a JLA reboot with a good plot, good villains, and good pacing (see Legends JUSTICE!, or Waid's precursor to Morrison's amazing run JUSTICE!), that's the comic I'll be reading from now on.  A damn shame it doesn't exist.

July 2, 2009 11:18 am

How can anyone be surprised?  The man is a bad father.  He takes you to the zoo, buys you a balloon, then checks out saying "I'm going to get some ice cream" and you never see him again.  Sometimes mom marries a new guy who watches tv, drinks beer, and smacks you in the back of the head.  Sometimes, you get nothing.

 

Squadron Supreme got me back into buying comics.  It was one of the most compelling series that kept building, and building, and building ...to, eventually, getting smacked in the back of the head with Sam jackson and all that crap.  Juh-what!  Nighthawk, the first fight with a super-powered villain, even Tom Thumb was genius.  Thanks for the ice cream, dad!

 

The Twelve was one of the best Watchmen knock-offs I can think of.  It should have been titled The  Sevenish written by I'm Going to Get Some Ice Cream, Be Back in a While.